Case Study: Higher Education Organization achieves improved cybersecurity posture with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero

Higher Education Organization Improves Cybersecurity Posture with NodeZero

Higher Education Organization, responsible for several campuses and remotely managing roughly 400 endpoints plus about 600 students on a separate VLAN, needed a better way to identify and prioritize security weaknesses. Their director of technology engaged Horizon3.ai and its NodeZero platform for a proof of concept, during which NodeZero quickly exploited an LLMNR vulnerability and compromised the domain admin account (and three additional accounts), a finding they were able to remediate even before licensing the product.

Horizon3.ai delivered on-demand, automated pentesting with context-scoring and hands-on support, enabling the team to focus on exploitable, high-impact issues instead of informational noise. By running weekly NodeZero assessments and using Horizon3.ai’s guidance, the organization closed the LLMNR gap, reduced time spent chasing non-actionable findings, and now continuously prioritizes and remediates critical misconfigurations identified by the platform.